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tapenade

/ˌtæ.pəˈnɑːd/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.82 in modern English

Syllables
tape-nade
IPA
/ˌtæ.pəˈnɑːd/
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A Provençal dish consisting of puréed or finely chopped olives, capers, anchovies, and olive oil, usually eaten with bread as an hors d'œuvre.

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

Borrowed from French tapenade, from Provençal and Occitan tapenada, tapenado, a diminutive of tapeno (“caper”), variant of tàpero, from Old Occitan tapera, from Latin capparis (“caper”). Influenced by Old Occitan tapia (“rammed earth”), referring to caper bushes growing against buildings made of rammed earth.

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: tapenade, -, tapenada, tapera, capparis

Usage

Inflected Forms

tapenades (plural)

Derived Forms

pepperade

Questions

How do you pronounce tapenade?
The recorded pronunciation is /ˌtæ.pəˈnɑːd/.
What does tapenade mean?
A Provençal dish consisting of puréed or finely chopped olives, capers, anchovies, and olive oil, usually eaten with bread as an hors d'œuvre.
Where does tapenade come from?
It is traced to French.

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